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Monday, August 29, 2016

The City
of Olympia is seeking a Poet Laureate to engage our community in the
literary arts. The intent of Olympia’s Poet Laureate designation is to:

·Promote poetry as an art form

·Expand access to the literary arts

·Connect the community to poetry

·Promote poetry as a community voice that contributes to a sense of place

Applications due Friday, September 30, 2016, 5pm.

·2 year appointment

·$1000 stipend per year

·In
coordination with City Arts Program staff, the appointed Poet Laureate
will have the flexibility to shape a scope of work that reflects their
interests, skills and abilities.

·Applicant must be a practicing poet, dedicated to producing poetry (in and form, genre or style) on a regular basis.

·Applicant
must be an Olympia resident (within city limits or in the Urban Growth
Area) over 18 years of age. A residency verification process will be
conducted prior to
approval.

Applications available online at
www.olympiawa.gov/poetlaureate
A pre-submission workshop will take place Wednesday, September 7, 2016,
7pm, Room 101/102 of The Olympia Center, 222 Columbia St NW, and will
address questions about the application
and submission process.

Lisa Kinoshita is a force of nature. She is Tacoma’s
indefatigable impresario of art and nature—

art FROM nature

art IN nature

nature AS art.

She recently curated an art exhibition at W.W. Seymour
Botanical Conservatory in Wright Park that blended art and nature so thoroughly
that it was almost impossible to tell the art from the plants, and she has put
together similar shows at the Seaport Museum, at her gallery Moss + Mineral; at
Matter (co-owned by rePly Furniture and birdloft); and Gallery 301, where she
showed her own and other artists’ hand-made jewelry and exhibited taxidermy as
art. And who can forget the Chastity Show?

Eukarya" by Gabriel Brown, photo courtesy Lisa Kinoshita

"River in the Forest" by Terri Placentia and students at Tacoma School of the Arts, courtesy Lisa Kinoshita

Now she has pulled together an
outdoor, site-specific art show for Swan Creek Food Forest with works by 13
local artist. I haven’t seen it yet, but from what I’ve read about it,
wandering through the park is like a scavenger hunt for art, much of which is
made from materials found in the park itself. It’s a show (or event) that blurs
the boundaries between art and life, continuing a tradition that began more
than half a century ago with Marcel Duchamp and then Allan Kaprow, blurring the
walls between art and life. The park itself becomes the art.

For starters there’s the sculptured tree tied to a fence by Acataphasia
Grey. If that name sounds familiar, Grey is the Tacoma-based taxidermy artist
feature on the television show “Immortalized” three years ago. This is what I
wrote about her for the Weekly Volcano at the time: “(Acataphasia)
sees what others may call grotesque — roadkill, for instance, and strange
hybrid creatures —as beautiful. Tacoma’s art audience was first introduced to
Grey when she did an installation in an empty building in Opera Alley called
‘Tea for Short Expectations.’ Seen through peepholes in the window were
reworked taxidermy animals not found in nature, and stuffed animals with more
than the normal number of eyes and limbs.” That may be quite a far cry from a
sculpted tree carved from a dead tree with limbs bolted on and gold paint
applied, but it’s a good example of the kind of outside-the-norm thinking that
has gone into this outdoor art installation—which, by-the-way, will remain in
place until the art works are rotted, blown away or destroyed by nature or my vandals
(and this is not an invitation to vandals).

Gabriel
Brown’s “Eukarya”
is made from cardboard that has been ripped into strips and pieced together
with found garbage to form what looks like hornets’ nests hung on tree trunks.
Brown wrote: "Eukarya protrudes out as an abnormal growth, catching
the eye of those passing by. Upon second glance, Eukarya is easily determined
as made of cardboard/garbage, and may be interpreted as a manmade tumor, nest,
or 'ManFungus' reminding us of our mounding garbage problem. In this case,
garbage has taken on a life of its own, becoming a new invasive species of our
creation."

"River in the Forest" by Terri Placentia and
students at Tacoma School of the Arts is a stone and pinecone mosaic that cascades
around massive evergreens toward a precipice.

"Color Grove" by Elizabeth Gahan is recycled
political posters wrapped around a pair of trees in a red, green, black and
white checkerboard pattern in a grove.

“What makes (this installation)
super special is the park and food forest are next to Salishan," Kinoshita
said. "Once among Tacoma's most troubled neighborhoods, it is now a
shining, national model of urban renewal. The Eastside is a low-income area,
and has been described as a ‘food desert’ (with limited access to healthy
restaurants and groceries), so that makes the food forest an educational test
pilot, as well. The woods are extraordinary; in the fall it feels a bit like
the Olympic rainforest. And, there is a perennial salmon stream, Swan
Creek, the first one salmon go up on their migration after leaving Commencement
Bay. I amso lucky to live here.”

Swan Creek Food Forest, an experimental garden inside
a 373-acre wilderness on Tacoma's Eastside
managed and cared for by volunteers.The
entrance to this part of the park is at E 42nd and E Roosevelt in Tacoma.

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Elise Richman’s unique installation, “Spectral" at Matter Gallery may be difficult for many to grasp, but should be worth the effort to really
look and contemplate deeply.

Call it a wall hanging, a painting or assemblage
with plastics, this piece explores properties of light and color and was
inspired, according to a statement from the gallery, by thephenomenon of shimmering color seen in a butterfly’s wing.

The term “spectral” means of or like a ghost, a phantom, incorporeal,
insubstantial, otherworldly. A secondary definition is of or relating to a
spectrum, which is what you get when sunlight passes through a prism to produce
light of many colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
Richman’s “Spectral,” is all of that, but not in a spectacular,
light-show kind of way. There are color changes that some viewers may find hard
to see, and there is a visual investigation of the nature of absence of color.

It can be seen as a single work of art with
multiple parts or perhaps as two similar but contrasting works hung
side-by-side. On the left are four flat panes of plastic in alternating colors:
blue, yellow, blue, yellow. Dull colors, but with
intensely colored edges. The blue edges are dark, and the yellow ones are like
lemon-colored light. Matching in color are a group of rods that stand out from
the wall above these sheets, and suspended from these rods are clear plastic
sheets in the shape of tall, multi-faceted tents or umbrellas that are
colorless but act as prisms. On the right, a similar arrangement consists of
three tall, rectangular sheets of light blue plastic sheets with dark blue
edges with more clear, tent-like prisms suspended in front of them.

The installation needs to be studied slowly and
from many points of view. Don’t approach it expecting something like a
kaleidoscope and you might enjoy the subtly shifting and shimmering colors.

Richmanco-programs
the Art+Sci Lecture Series at Tacoma Art Museum. She was a finalist for the
2015 Neddy Award, recipient of the 2014 Davis Teaching Award, and of the 2014
Foundation of Art Award from the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation.

“While these transparent forms have no inherent
color they capture and are activated by light and color in the surrounding
environment. Ever-shifting reflections express a state of constant interaction
as in the shifting glow of a blue morpho’s delicate wing. Our own
capacity for optical perception, as well as the interaction between matter and
surrounding environments are integral to the manifestation of structural
colors.”

Also showing with Richman are The Bold and the Black, abstract sumi
ink paintings by Selinda Sheridan, and original ceramics by Melissa Balch.

Steve Gallion as the Father and Kathryn Grace Philbrook as the Director, photos courtesy New Muses Theatre

New Muses
Theatre Company is among a handful of lesser-known companies that produces
excellent theater for mostly sparse audiences. By my count, here were only 10
people in the audience opening night of Luigi Pirandello’s absurdist play Six Characters in Search of an Audience.
The actors outnumbered the audience by one.

That small audience
witnessed an intelligent, challenging, well-written and well-acted play.

It is a play
that calls into question the relationships between fiction and reality, between
actors and the characters they play, and between characters and the author. In
New Muses’ interpretation, it starts before it starts with a bit of pre-curtain
play between two actors (Vivian Bettoni and Eric Cuestas-Thompson) playing a
couple of unnamed actors running lines before rehearsal. They stand off to the
side and speak softly as the audience enters. Most of the audience can’t hear
them and perceptibly pay no attention. It is almost as if the audience is an
unwilling part of the play. I was sitting close to the two actors and could
hear that their dialogue was about the age-old question of the chicken and the
egg. The play they are preparing to rehearse is Mixing It Up, also by Pirandello. I thought this pre-play bit was
inventive but slightly confusing, and that it was too long. But it segued
nicely into the actual play, which starts out even more confusing but soon
begins to make sense. And it did make me wonder if others who seemed to be
entering as audience members might also be actors.

Amina Ali and Steve Gallion

Just as the
director (Kathryn Grace Philbrook) gets ready to start the rehearsal, a strange
family invades the theater. The director tells them it’s a closed rehearsal and
they have to leave, but they refuse. The father (Steve Gallion) says they are
looking for an author. They are unfinished characters in an unfinished play,
and they have to find the author in order to complete themselves. At first, the
director is outraged, but as the father and his stepdaughter (Amina Ali) began
to tell their story, the director becomes intrigued and decides to produce
their story as a play with the highly skeptical actors playing the parts of
these real characters. So the director and the family argue over their story
and how to present it, and the family — most adamantly father and the
stepdaughter, who laughs outrageously in the actors’ faces, —thinking the
actors are doing a terrible job of portraying them.

The family’s
story is that the father had sent his wife (Becky Cain-Kellogg) and their son
(Karter Duff) away, and she later had three more children by another man: two
younger children (11-year-old Corey Cross and 7-year-old Keiralee Monta), and
the now grown stepdaughter, whom the father tried to seduce, ostensibly not
knowing who she was.

It is a wild
and imaginative play filled with absurdist arguments about what is real and
what is play acting and about the relationships between actors, the characters
they play, and authors, without whom the characters cannot exist. It is
presented in the round with no set decoration and no set pieces other than a
table and a few chairs.

Niclas Olson,
founder and managing artistic director of New Muses, adapted Pirandello’s play
and does a fine job of directing it. The three lead characters, Gallion,
Philbrook and Ali, are outstanding, making unbelievable characters totally
believable. Ali is brash and seductive, and has a marvelous laugh. Philbrook
plays the director as a most complex character, arrogant and sure of herself, which
turns out to be a cover-up for self-doubt. She beautifully and convincingly
portrays the director’s astonishment at the audacity to these interlopers at
her rehearsal. And by-the-way, the director was a man in the original. Gallion
plays the father as a kind of bumbling but sincere man who lurches around the
stage in a manner that brings to mind Peter Falk as Columbo. I’ve seen Gallion
in only one other play, New Muses’ Romeo
and Juliet; I hope to see much more of him.

Six Characters in Search of an Author is presented in one act
and runs approximately 90 minutes.

The Urban
Sketchers exhibition at Handforth Gallery in the downtown Tacoma Public Library
is delightfully lightweight.The walls are filled with quick sketches in pencil,
pen and ink, watercolor and other media of mostly local scenes familiar to many
Tacomans—some by well-known local artists and some by artists known only to
friends and family.

Urban Sketchers is a nationwide movement for artists who love to draw the area where
they live, work, or visit. Their works are executed while looking out a window
at home, from a cafe, standing by a street-corner, or other convenient
location.The local group, Tacoma Urban Sketchers, typically meets at a
designated spot in the morning and then disperses to sketch until noon. During the summer, there is an
afternoon sketching session.There
are sketch outings on the
first Saturday of each month and on the third Wednesday year around.

Works from this group currently on display in the library
are like candid photos of local people and places,
only they’re not photos; they are artworks typically done in a loose, free and
quick manner.

“Neck Brace Guy,” a pencil sketch by Helen Phillips pictures a man
wearing a neck brace seated in an airplane as seen from the side and back. I
can imagine he never suspected he was being drawn. The style looks a lot like a
lithograph, which is interesting because it lends to the picture a gritty
texture not usually seen in pencil drawings.

“The Breakfast Club,” pen and wash by R.J. Lane, is one of
the few pieces in the show not of a Tacoma-area scene. It is a sketch of
patrons in Carla’s Country Kitchen in Morro Bay, Calif. The great casually
rendered expressions on their faces are fun to contemplate.

A watercolor called “Blanket Stories” by Kate Buike
pictures the great sculpture by the same name that is on permanent display
against the front wall of the Tacoma Art Museum. It is cropped and pictured
from an intriguing angle with the dome of Union Station seen in the background.

“Fort Nisqually Southwest Corner” by Ken Fulton is one of
a few almost pure line drawings in the show, with strong dark and light
contrasts in the rare shaded areas.

A similar drawing, but less sketchy and more nicely
controlled is Frances Buckmaster’s ink drawing “Breakwater Marina, Point
Defiant.”

There are three excellent line drawings by Paul Morris:
“Union Station,” “Thea Foss Waterway” and “Downtown Library Alley View.”

A couple of other works of note are
K.D. Keckler’s “Swiss House Gathering,” another scene of diners, and Roy
Steiner’s “Abandoned Van Lierop Farm,” depicting an abandoned barn painted blue
with tall grasses and a leafless tree in front of it. This is the only picture
in the show that has no line-drawing element. The media was not listing on the
wall label, but it looks like gouache.

Find out more
about the local Urban Sketchers at http://urbansketcherstacoma.blogspot.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/groups/UrbanSketchersTacoma/
Handforth Gallery at Tacoma Public Library, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and
Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays-Saturday, through Sept. 6, 1102 Tacoma
Ave. S, Tacoma

On
the 16th of August, South Sound storytellers will entertain a sure-to-be packed
house at Rhythm and Rye in Olympia for the last of this year’s StoryOly story
slams before the 12 top storytellers of the year meet in the Grand Slam on
Sept. 17.

Every
month on the third Tuesday approximately 10 storytellers show off their skills
and vie for first place in the raucous storytelling event. I’ve attended all
but a few of the events this year and can attest that they truly are raucous,
and the crowd responses are fabulous. The majority of the stories are funny; many
are risqué; a few are sad, scary or touching — such as the wonderfully sweet
story Keith Eisner told in July about the birth of his now 40-year-old son.
Eisner is a professional writer, actor and director. Many of the storytellers
are professional writers or entertainers, as are co-founders Elizabeth Lord and
Amy Shephard, but even more are amateurs who mount the stage and tell their
personal stories for the first time, usually in the face of great fear. And
they are usually great.

Elizabeth Lord. Photos courtesy Story Oly

Community
members come together every month to share, compete and tell true stories
based on a monthly theme. Past themes have included “I Got What I
Deserved,” “Family,” and “Revenge.” People who want to tell a story put their
names in a hat, and 10 names are drawn at random. Each storyteller is allowed
eight minutes. The stories must be true and personal, no rants, speeches or
religious testimony, and no reading from notes or scripts. After each story
volunteer judges from the audience hold up cards with scores from one to 10.
The judges tend to be kind; I’ve never seen a score lower than five.

The
winner from each month gets to compete in the Grand Slam in September. Winners
are: Devin Felix (Nov.), Jim Foley (Dec.), Sam Miller (Jan.), a three-way tie
between Billie Mazzei, Maggie Lott and Christian Carvajal, (Feb.), Lori Nesmith
(March), Rey White (April), Matthew Trenda (May), Anders Hornblat (June),
Eisner in July, and a final winner to be determined this month. Eisner will be
out of town the weekend of the Grand Slam and unable to participate.

Shepard
is an actor and choreographer well known for her work at Harlequin Productions,
most recently in Little Shop of Horrors as both choreographer and one of the
singing and dancing Doo-Wops. “It's been incredible to see how StoryOly events
have blossomed since we started last November,” Shephard says. “Elizabeth
and I are so grateful for the attendance and participation of our community.
With each show we get to hear stories from many different voices, perspectives
and backgrounds. If that weren't wonderful enough, there is the fact that
when a patron buys a ticket, they know that not only will they see an amazing
show but that half of their ticket price is going directly to Olympia
SafePlace. So when you come to a story slam you not only support us, you
support victims of sexual and domestic violence through wonderful organizations
like SafePlace.”

Lord,
a professional storyteller and member of the Heartsparkle Players, is also
founder and host of Lord
Franzannian's Royal Olympian Spectacular Vaudeville Show. Lord says, “I
love StoryOly. I especially love how successful it's been. Full houses most
nights. Its success is a confirmation of something I've always
known to be true: live, oral storytelling is a powerful medium. Nothing
replaces a human telling you a story, right there in front of you. Plus, with
StoryOly (Like the Moth Storytelling events) the audience hears true personal
stories that resonate with the universal human experience. Oral Storytelling
makes the world smaller, more understandable, and of course entertaining.”

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Olympia Little Theatre presents A Night on Broadway an evening of song and dance with Harry O'Hare
and Micheal O'Hara in a special benefit performance for the theater, two
performances only, Saturday, Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. and a Sunday matinee Aug. 28 at
2 p.m.

The couple with the sound-alike last names have been
married for a long, long, long time and have been a staple on the Tacoma
theater scene for almost that long. I cannot count the times I have had the
pleasure of reviewing plays they’ve been in — mostly musicals, but sometimes
dramatic plays as well. Sharry was most recently seen at OLT as the mother in Life
is Complicated, a dramatic role in which she played the heavy. Other memorable
roles have included that of Patsy Cline’s friend, Louise Seger in Always . . .
Patsy Cline at Tacoma Little Theatre and as Lily in Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks with her husband, Micheal, also at TLT. Micheal has also
performed in countless musicals around the South Sound and has also directed
many. When performing together there is undeniable chemistry between the O’Hare-O’Haras.

But I will let Sharry tell about
themselves:

We have been singing together for 25
years, totally separate from the theatre roles we perform. When we first
married in 1990, we loved the idea about the similar names and how we could
capitalize on using them for a show: SHARRY O'HARE . . .MICHEAL
O'HARA. But we had such totally different styles, Micheal a trained
singer who read music and I was post-vaudeville. There was a gig I was supposed
to sing at shortly after we married with my then singing partner, Frank Kohel,
and something happened that he couldn't make it, so Micheal stepped in and we
discovered with him being a tenor and me an alto that made for an interesting
combination.

Throughout the years we have
performed at a variety of venues, many worthy of story telling. We
rarely turned down an opportunity to perform as we really enjoyed the audience
connection on a more personal level. For the past 5 years or so, we have
"donated" ourselves for fund raising auctions at theatres, retirement
homes and some private organizations. Those are great fun because you
never know who is going to bid or where you are going to end up performing.

Here is a sampling of some of our
"stages" we've done our variety show on: street fairs, fitness
centers, a tugboat holiday party, paper doll conventions, mental facilities,
business openings, baptisms and funerals, apple squeezes and ice cream socials,
garden soirees, retirement homes, banquets, and in the homes of people who are having
a special event. And my all-time favorites, the ubiquitous fraternal clubs to
include the Kiwanis, Chambers of Commerce, Oddfellows, Elks, Eagles, Lions
Club, Knights of Columbus and my personal favorite, the Moose Lodges.

For OLT, we are doing our standard
11 songs, and we are adding 6 more new pieces that we are feverishly learning
right now. Our accompanist is Debra Leach, who has played for us the past 20
years. We try to find a nice balance of older standards that everyone
knows and then throw in some newer songs from Broadway shows that they might
not have heard. We chat throughout, just like we are in their living
rooms and the audience is always a part of our act. That is the
connection I was talking about. Unlike a character you play, we are in
full view of everyone and we can see them and their reactions. We don't
bring people up on stage, but we may include them in general statements or ask
if they know what show a song comes from. The program will probably be an
hour and we will bring out our glitzy duds.

For almost every show like this that
we have done, we have always been invited to stay after, commune with the folks
and that has been what I love--getting to know the people around you and
finding new friends.

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Debbie Sampson and Ryan Holmberg in “Guido in Therapy” from an earlier edition of Improbable Peck of Plays. Photo courtesy Theater Artists Olympia

The theater season is a lot like a wedding: something old,
something new, something borrowed, something blue.

To look at what’s in store for South Sound audiences, let’s
start with Tacoma Little Theater. TLT’s season includes Steve Martin’s comedy “The
Underpants,” a delightfully twisted comedy about a German woman who loses her
bloomers during a parade in 1910. For something old that never dies, TLT is
doing “Dracula,” adapted by Steven Dietz and directed by pug Bujeaud. Also scheduled
is “Exit Laughing,” a Southern Gothic farce about a night of bridge with three
women and the ashes of the fourth, the last of whom recently passed away.

Lakewood Playhouse opens with “The Hound
of the Baskervilles” and Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penance.” In
between these in a season of great diversity will be the Pulitzer Prize- and
Tony Award-winning play, “Doubt,” a drama about a priest accused of sexual
misconduct by a nun. It was also an Academy Award-winning film with Philip Seymour
Hoffman and Meryl Streep.

Tacoma Musical Playhouse’s 2016-2017 season opens with the
wonderfullycreepy,
and kooky musical “TheAddams Family,” based, of
course, on the popular television series. In this grown-up and updated version
of the wacky show about a family of monsters, daughter Wednesday is now grown
up and – heaven forbid – in love with a normal boy. For something old there’s
“Meet Me in St. Louis,” a holiday musical about the 1904 World’s Fair, and for
something blue it’s “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story.”

In what is becoming South Sound’s favorite holiday
tradition, Centerstage in Federal Way will produce another Panto — this one a
twisted retelling of the story of “Little Red Riding Hood.” Be prepared for
cross dressing villains, outrageous audience participation, and jokes that
tickle kids on one level and delight adults on quite a different level. http://www.centerstagetheatre.com/

Olympia’s Harlequin Productions will
do Tracy Letts’ 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner “August: Osage County.” Sometimes called a black comedy, it is
arguably more drama than comedy. Set in a farm house in Oklahoma, it gets into
the heart of a family wracked by alcoholism, drug addiction and a myriad other
dysfunctions.

Olympia’s popular children’s
theater, Olympia Family Theater, will produce an original musical whodunit
called “Fishnapped! this season, written by local actors turned playwright Amy
Shepard, Andrew Gordon and Daven Tillinghast. This world premiere musical is
recommended for all ages and is scheduled for a spring premiere.

Pug Bujeaud from Theater Artists Olympia says the theme of
their upcoming season will be “sexy and sensual.” TAO’s season opens in October
with their annual “An Improbable Peck of Plays,” a showcase of one-act plays by
local playwrights. In December Bujeaud will direct what she calls a “sexy”
version of Moliere’s “A Physician in Spite of Himself.” TAO is the South
Sound’s riskiest fringe theater. Their productionsare almost always
outstanding.

Something borrowed is Olympia Little Theatre’s “Or,” which
played not too long ago at Seattle Repertory Theatre and at Olympia’s Harlequin
Productions. It is a strange, beautiful, madcap, gender-bending farce based on
the life of Aphra Behn, England's first female professional playwright,
who also happened to be a spy. For something
new (about something old) at OLT, it’s “A Lollard in the Wind”by local playwright and actor John Pratt,an original play about
Geoffrey Chaucer and his writing of The Canterbury Tales.

Tacoma Little Theatre is pleased to welcome Found Space Productions, and their production of STOP KISS, by Diana Son.

A poignant and funny play about the ways, both sudden and slow, that lives can change irrevocably. After Callie and Sara meet, their fast friendship leads to an unexpected attraction. Their first kiss provokes a violent attack that transforms their lives.
STOP KISS is directed by Suzy Willhoft after a successful reading at UPS. It will feature the talents of Emily Cohen, Chevi Chung, Cassie Jo Fastabend, and Nick Spencer.

STOP KISS will run Friday, August 18, 2016 and Saturday, August 19, 2016. All showing are at 7:30pm. This show is recommended for ages 13 and older,

Tickets are $10.00 for all seats and may be purchased online at www.tacomalittletheatre.com, or by calling our Box Office at (253) 272-2281. Group rates are available for 10 or more.

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